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Run note, 3 September 2023
2023 run notes, week 2
2023 run notes, week 1
2023 running: week 1, planning
Run note for 2022
Run note for July 2021
Run note for May and June 2021
Weeknote, Monday 14 to Friday 18 June 2021
Weeknote, Monday 7 to Friday 11 June 2021
Weeknote, Sunday 9 May 2021
Weeknote, Saturday 1 May 2021
Run note for April 2021
2021 note number 2 — week commencing 8 February 2021
Cycles
2021 note number 1 — week commencing 1 February 2021
Run note for November 2020
Weeknote, Monday 23 to Friday 27 November 2020
My guiding principles for working
Weeknote, Monday 16 to Friday 20 November 2020
How I plan my day
Papyrus
Weeknote, Monday 9 to Friday 13 November 2020
Run note for August, September and October 2020
Weeknote, Monday 2 to Friday 6 November 2020
Weeknote, week Monday 26 October to Friday 30 October 2020
Tone
Shed life, then and whatever is next
Weeknote, week commencing Monday 14 September 2020
Weeknote, week commencing Monday 7 September 2020
Recycling running shoes (draft)
Run note for July 2020
On service design, service designers — or just designing
The system
Weeknote, Monday 29 June to Friday 3 July 2020
Run note for June 2020
Weeknote, Monday 22 June to Friday 26 June 2020
Why service design or a service designer?
Weeknote, Monday 15 June to Friday 19 June 2020
Diabetes notes, number 8
Ten questions for a new role
Weeknote, Monday 8 to Friday 12 June 2020
Diabetes notes, number 7
Run note for May 2020
Diabetes notes, number 6
Keeping an eye on what’s happened and what could happen
Run note for April 2020
Weeknote, from Monday 20 to Sunday 26 April 2020
Weeknote, from Monday 13 to Sunday 19 April 2020
Run note for March 2020
Diabetes notes, number 5
The strategy is good service design
Diabetes notes, number 4
Diabetes notes, number 3
Diabetes notes, number 2
Weeknote for week ending Friday 6 March 2020
Diabetes notes, number 1
Criticism. A Simple Guide.
Run note for February 2020
Weeknote for week ending Friday 28 February 2020
Weeknote for week ending Friday 21 February 2020
Maps
Weeknote for week ending Friday 14 February 2020
Weeknote for week ending Friday 7 February 2020
Running in 2019, the outtakes
Work note for January 2020
Run note for January 2020
Weeknote for week ending Friday 31 January 2020
Weeknote for week ending Friday 24 January 2020
Weeknote for week ending Friday 17 January 2020
Weeknote for week ending Friday 10 January 2020
Weeknote for week ending Friday 3 January 2020
Running in 2019
Run notes for November 2019, week 5
Run notes for November 2019, week 4
Run notes for November 2019, week 3
Run notes for November 2019, week 2
Run notes for November 2019, week 1
Run notes for October 2019
Weeknote for weeks 40 and 41 of 2019, 30 September to 13 October
The service experience
Run notes for September 2019
Weeknote for weeks 38 and 39 of 2019, 16 September to 29 September
The problem observed
Weeknote for week 37 of 2019, 9 September to 15 September
The flow
Weeknote for week 36 of 2019, 2 September to 8 September
Run notes for August 2019
Weeknote for week 35 of 2019, 26 August to 30 August
Weeknote for week 34 of 2019, 19 August to 23 August
Run notes for July 2019
Run notes for June 2019
Run notes for May 2019
Look after yourself
Weeknote for Monday 6 May 2019 to Friday 10 May 2019
Weeknote for Monday 29 April 2019 to Friday 3 May 2019
Run notes for April 2019
1976 Olympics book in Berlin
UAL design school manifesto
Weeknotes week commencing Monday 28 January 2019
Weeknotes week commencing Monday 21 January 2019
Weeknotes week commencing Monday 14 January 2019
Weeknotes week commencing Monday 7 January 2019
Weeknotes week commencing Monday 30 December 2018
Leeds Gov Design meet number 5 – and onwards
Leeds gov design meet number 4, done
Discovery then alpha. Always.
Lunchtime chats offer for people designing gov services
Bail reform in New Jersey
DWP Digital design examples session for Leeds gov design meet number 3
Leeds gov design meet number 3, done
Planning Leeds cross gov design meet number 3
DWP product owners meet
Pay to opt out
Leeds gov design meet number 2, done
WTF signage
Leeds cross gov design meet number 2
Continual gradual improvement poster
Leeds Service Jam 2018 is coming
Leeds gov design meet number 1, done - and looking forwards
Africa chorus lyrics posters
Leeds gov design meet number 1
“The prototype”
DWP Digital Leeds design notes, number 1
Antennas up. Receive and send.
Looking ahead to service jams in Leeds during 2018
2018 Bradford CoderDojos
New year, new eyes on your work
Work goals for the first quarter of 2018
Designing with real enough data
Talking in education offer
Getting out of the way
The strategy is...
Chlamydia primary care design sprint, days one and two
Broadacre 2017
The map is a living thing
Air lines
Making a simple dashboard for our discovery
A sense of doing something
Weeknotes s02e04
Weeknotes s02e03
Public Design WY number 3 is done
The shed has become a workshop
Weeknotes s02e01 and s02e02
It's only words: the carelessness of a supermarket’s self service checkout user interface
Public Design WY number 2 is done
Camp Digital 2017 slides
May 2017 Bradford CoderDojo
Is your minimum viable product viable?
Accidental slogans
The usefulness of design patterns
Butlins wifi and not stating the terms of your transaction
Public Design WY number 1 is done
Design, Make, Learn and 'digital socialism' stickers
Public Design WY number 1 is go
Listening, not hearing
Being in the same room
The cost of sitting versus the cost of standing
Public Design WY
Weeknotes s01e18
A Slackbot over a coffee
The Design Museum
Week ending Sunday 19 February 2017
Weeknotes s01e13
It’s the mission that matters
Weeknotes s01e12
Weeknotes s01e11
Weeknotes s01e08, s01e09, and s01e10
Bradford CoderDojo – back for 2017
Days out looking sideways
Weeknotes s01e07
Weeknotes s01e05
Weeknotes s01e04
Look sideways more
Mentor offer redux
Weeknotes s01e03
Weeknotes s01e02
Patterns, patterns
Business constraints
Weeknotes s01e01
I do this stickers
Fight snub
Getting people together
My problem with “digital transformation”
People are not crows
That’s not my home phone number, the area dial code is all wrong - Or, how I suddenly lost trust in my bank
What is it I actually do?
Typography, an example to learn from
USDS values
number number dash number number dash
It’s how you display it
Stickers as a thank you
HMRC-ya
Keeping things on track
Mentor offer
Knowing what to expect
A simpler, clearer, better bradford.gov.uk
Always be in beta posters
Some new stickers
Start at the core
Sunday design stuff in New York
Visit to Cooper Hewitt in New York
Getting stuff done (in gov)
Invisible Chinatown
Codegirl at the Co-op
Digital transformation is change management
Rail travel: A user experience in buying access to a network
What... what seems to be the problem?
Collaborating across government design communities
Never be the same
Good times for a change
Design is the process, and when designing works
Us versus them
Motivations
Lowering your shields
Coffee and toast
Be more start-up
It looks like a frozen sausage
Blood simple
Get Git
Show all the options, AirBnB style
Teachings from user research sessions
Forefront, Leeds, 25 November 2015
Designing stickers – or: Getting out a bit more
Why the Bronx Burned, a cautionary tale on bad data usage
Lisa Hanawalt at XOXO 2015
Openly talking across government, about design
The World of Ray and Charles Eames
Talking about the design work we do in HMRC Digital
Doing research with users to understand gifts
Contracting problems
Tom Loosemore on new foundations for government
Mis-shapes
A quick note on *asterisks* and [square brackets]
Reading list
The lost art of copywriting
GDS as a platform
Plain speaking
September 2015 Bradford CoderDojo
Some short notes about show and tells at HMRC Digital
The planets – to scale
Design is teamwork
Beverly Hills Cop intro credits
Saul Bass pitching to Bell
A happy ending
Thunk.
HMRC: nearly three weeks up
Games are fun for everyone. (But not all games are fun at all.)
The last Bradford CoderDojo of the 2014/15 academic year
How Spotify does agile
Going off
View your local Scores on the Doors
Bradford District STEM networking event, June 2015
Better when relevant: improving the Hang My Washing Out tool
How I learnt to code
Bradford Coder Dojo June 2015: Tasty Pi!
Introducing Shipley's Code Cafe
Look up your Amazon wishlist in a local library
A short note about prototyping
Look up Amazon bestsellers in the Leeds/Bradford library system
Leeds GovJam 2015: in just three points
Looking ahead to Leeds GovJam 2015
Exploring the lives of "older people" through the Age Camp unconference
May 2015 NUX Leeds notes
Pitches: I love to hate you (but love a good workshop)
Doing my own thing: nearly one year on
The future could be ace, but we still need to think of IE8
Why volunteer?
Scorsese on story versus plot
Getting Hyperlocal with young people in Leeds
You say persona, I say person-ah
David Chang and deliciousness
Opening the Leeds School of Data
Hacking together a data masher
Weathering a two hour hack
Try something new to something already there
Open data in Leeds: represented by just three organisations?
The return of the Leeds digital lunches
mhLeeds workshop
The 'public spaces' of Bradford and Leeds
Bettakultcha Leeds June 2014
Leeds GovJam 2014
A website within a service
Odd spaces
Briefs and work: Inspire. Inspiring. Inspirational.
A dog: one year on
Brand guidelines as guides
Because Robert Redford
Next
Let go.
"Look at this from a user experience point of view"
Responsive design work: not that new is it?
The inveitable Whatsapp post
Defined work. Speculative work.
Rational Irrational
Reach out, with your government
My spring 2014 student deck
Not-so-infinite scroll
The problem with crowd sourcing
The brains behind spending a $25,000 marketing budget in a creative way
Overlooking interactions
I miss journalism
Cicada 3301
A stickier internet